22/ “Philip says he “looked ahead 10 to 20 years and saw ourselves older and possibly without family, with diminishing ability to travel, in a country where I didn’t see whites, let alone Jews, being a priority.”
32/ Israel’s education ministry: “Such integration may harm the cultural and family roots of the students and create a unification of cultures in a manner that would erase and blur the identity and the community from which they come.”
The aim of liberal Zionist propaganda at this stage is to salvage the Zionist project. To that end, prominent figures like former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have begun publicly denouncing Netanyahu and his government, accusing them of committing genocide.
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2/ This has sparked excitement in some circles, “Even Israeli leaders are calling it genocide!,” but this is not progress. On the contrary, by acknowledging that NOW it is genocide, specifically in reference to Operation Gideon’s Chariots, they achieve several strategic goals:
3/ (i) They exonerate the Zionist project as a whole, implying it wasn’t genocidal before October 7, or even until recently. Only now, under Netanyahu, has it supposedly crossed that line; (ii) They shift blame away from themselves, pinning guilt squarely on
Israel is carrying out a plan to destroy Palestinian society from within.
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Other than a tool to move the population southward as part of a brazen criminal displacement campaign, the starvation of Gaza has another insidious deliberate objective-
2/ socially engineered atomization of the people in Gaza, designed to create extreme deprivation, societal chaos and internal strife, particularly through food scarcity and lack of control and subsequently as a pretext for further genocide, expulsion, theft and domination.
3/ Renowned Primatologist Jane Goodall documented a prolonged conflict (1974–1978) between two chimpanzee groups, the Kasakela and the Kahama, in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. This “Gombe Chimpanzee War” saw the Kasakela community systematically attack and eliminate
Israeli society is cooked.
There is no way to sustain a functioning society long term while committing overt, explicit, gleeful genocide. We are seeing this on every level of interpersonal relationships.
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2/ Though these trends have always been a part of Zionism, liberal Zionism is what held it together - and the founders knew it. Now, with liberal Zionisms complete dissolution at the hands of Netanyahu, and the celebration of fascism and white supremacy, newarab.com/opinion/libera…
3/ no amount of back peddling, gaslighting or pink washing will do.
There is nothing but offense left- pushing forward, focusing on the present and a fascistic fantasy of manifest destiny in the future, rather than the past, which is indefensible.
Zionism’s Metamorphosis: From Liberal Facade to Shameless Fascism
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2/ In recent months, Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza has stripped away the last remnants of Zionism’s liberal pretenses, exposing its ideological foundation as one which fully embraces fascism. aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/…
3/ Yet this transformation is not new - it is a return to its roots. From its early alliances with Mussolini’s Italy to its contemporary paramilitary tactics in North America, Zionism has always harboured a militant, genocidal, authoritarian core. palestine-studies.org/en/node/38833
Dehumanizing propaganda operates by constructing a rigid divide between "us" and "them."
2/ As humans, we do not instinctively recognize those close to us - we rely on learned cues and social conditioning. We ask ourselves: Does this person look like me? Act like me? Play like me? Eat like me? Pray like me? Here lies the opportunity for manipulation.
3/ Propaganda exploits this by depicting the "other" as subhuman, illustrating people as rats, vermin, flesh-eating grubs, distorting perception and fostering emotional distance.
Something about No Other Land and the attention it's receiving has been bothering me. Naturally, the liberal establishment and Hollywood champion Israeli/ Palestinian "cooperation" against "the occupation," conveniently avoiding any confrontation with Zionism itself
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2/ as a genocidal, white supremacist ideology. The two-sideism/ normalizing approach permeates through No Other Land - from its title and the friendship it highlights.
3/ Meanwhile, films which promote the Palestinian perspective alone, ie the voices of the oppressed - eg From Ground Zero and Al Jazeera’s The Night Won’t End - offer a much braver and more incisive perspective and are more deserved of recognition.